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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Determining and revoking permissions in a site

SharePoint lets you view who has access to your site and what level of access they have.

This recipe will show you how to determine the level of access that a user may have to your site. We will also learn how to use SharePoint permissions management to revoke permissions for an existing user of the site.

Getting ready

You will need at least Read access to the site where you'd like to check user permissions. You will need Full Control access to be able to view advanced permissions or to revoke user permissions on your site.

For this recipe, we will assume that you have Full Control access to the site where you'd like to check permissions.

How to do it...

To view and update user permissions on a site, browse to your site and follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Settings gear icon in the top-right corner.
  1. Click Site permissions, as shown...